Excerpt from Unveiling of the Statue of Chief Justice Marshall, at Washington, May 10th, 1884 No more suitable public reservation could be found than the ground on which we stand, almost within the shadow of the capitol in which for more than thirty years he held the highest judicial position in the country. It may well be that the even tenour of his judicial life has driven from some minds the story of his brilliant and eventful youth. The same simplicity, the same modesty which marked the Child distinguished the great ...
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Excerpt from Unveiling of the Statue of Chief Justice Marshall, at Washington, May 10th, 1884 No more suitable public reservation could be found than the ground on which we stand, almost within the shadow of the capitol in which for more than thirty years he held the highest judicial position in the country. It may well be that the even tenour of his judicial life has driven from some minds the story of his brilliant and eventful youth. The same simplicity, the same modesty which marked the Child distinguished the great Chief Justice, but, as a Judge, his life was necessarily one of thought and study, of enforced retirement from much of the busy world, dealing more with results than processes; and the surges of faction and Of passion, the heat of ambition, the thirst of power reached him not in his high judicial station. Yet he had himself been a busy actor on the scenes of life, and if his later days seemed colourless, the story of his earlier years is full of charm. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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